... 2011: a Reagan odyssey Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Americans live in the world first made possible by the massive exploitation of German cinematography on the outskirts of what was then a young California city. Their history does not come from books but from what was originally celluloid and now are billions of digital signals. Hence it is no wonder that the 'greatest US president' was an iconic product of the film and propaganda industry which has done more to sell the US 'way of life' and its vision of the world than anything else, including Coca-Cola. Ronald Reagan, an entirely synthetic personality – like the digital Max Headroom created during his presidency1 – was given to ...

... Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to the war on Iraq. By coincidence Ledeen was much involved on the first occasion the late Pope came to wide public attention in May 1981. Soon after the election of US President Ronald Reagan an attempt was made to assassinate John Paul II in St Peter's Square. While it was known almost immediately that the would-be assassin was a Turkish fascist, Mehmet Ali Agca, a Reader's Digest article, 'The Plot to Kill the Pope', a little later marked the start of a concerted US-based publicity effort to blame the outrage on ...

... media figures via mind-controlled, satanically-programmed courtesans and bagmen. Bowart does not suggest that the Devil is behind this: only that the trappings of Satanism are used to terrify and indoctrinate the mind controlees during childhood. In one fascinating chapter, he interviews an anonymous woman who claims to have been mind-controlled into becoming the sex slave of Bob Hope! Reagan, Bush and other politicos are mentioned in the same context. I am willing to believe the worst about anybody, especially Bob Hope, but.... why bother? Very wealthy entertainers and politicians have wives, keep mistresses and frequent hookers. Why do they need mindless sex slaves? Tabloid readers may recall the the case ...

... of national politics in three English-speaking nations'. In Britain, the focus has always been on Murdoch's close relationship first with Thatcher and then with Blair and Brown. What McKnight brings out is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch's affection. While he was very close to Thatcher, it was Reagan and Reaganism that 'were the most important influences on Rupert Murdoch's political world view'. This is an important corrective. Indeed, when Thatcher and Reagan disagreed, as over the US invasion of Grenada, Murdoch invariably sided with Reagan. If anything, Thatcher was not Thatcherite enough for Murdoch. He was in favour of dismantling the NHS ...

... the CIA, sponsored a week's study on 'the Successor Generation' and its implications for Nato. 'The Successor Generation' is another name for anti-Americanism in Europe. Peter Dailey, US Ambassador to Ireland, noting the trend of antipathy to American policies, reported to the White House on ways of strengthening support for Cruise and Pershing, recommending that Reagan appoint an 'Arms Reduction Ombudsman'- not to help with arms reduction, but to do public relations work for Reagan's policies. (Peace News 29/9 /83)*** Richard Viguerie, who was responsible for the European direct mailing campaign, is regarded as the Godfather of the New Right. He is the former ...

... . Futile in their apparent ambition to gild the lily, but, nonetheless, interesting. Kennedy was, indeed, a Cold War Warrior, but not just one. Parmet's chronicle of the Kennedy presidency is pretty accurate but he fails to convey any size of the change from the Eisenhower/Dulles era. We tend to think of the Reagan administration as representing a big shift to the right. This isn't really accurate- not in the whole post-war period. All they've actually done is return to the rhetoric (mostly) and the behaviour (partly) of the pre-Kennedy era. Little of what has been said or done by the Reagan administration would have seemed that surprising coming ...

... ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 30 Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast Jonathan Marshall 'Rug merchants' was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan's dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North's Mideast contacts. 'It was a brutal, ugly story,' said the CIA's chief operations officer, Clair George. 'People were selling information, selling hostages, selling their rings, selling their clothes, selling letters ...

... , politically and militarily. William Casey, the unscrupulous millionaire business man organising Ronald Reagan's Presidential campaign, had known all about the US's supposedly secret negotiations with Iraq, and even the details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to Iran for their war, but on condition that Tehran hung onto the 52 hostages until Ronald Reagan was President. Iran agreed to what was, by American law, virtually a secret pact with the Devil. On 20 January 1981, the very day that ...

... the military and the civil service. Media members include Economist political editor David Lipsey, Independent economics editor Diane Coyle, Times Educational Supplement editor Caroline St John-Brooks and BBC journalists Jeremy Paxman, Isabel Hilton, Trevor Phillips and James Naughtie. BAP's Origins The first recorded mention of the need for a 'successor generation' came in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan spoke to a group, including Rupert Murdoch and Sir James Goldsmith, in the White House. The reason for the 21 March gathering that year was US fear of the rising opposition to the siting of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Western Europe. Reagan's administration took this movement so seriously that it recalled its ambassador to Ireland, Peter Dailey ...